Tim Tulloch (harrison at netaxis.com) wrote:
} Does anyone know of any good sources of information on the RAS
} part of the brain? I want to do some reading on this. Thanks, --Tim
-- I would start with the following, because as I see it, the locus
coeruleus is the very essence of the classical RAS concept:
1 Foote, S.L., Berridge, C.W., Adams, L.M. and Pineda, J.A.,
Electrophysiological evidence for the involvement of the locus
coeruleus in alerting, orienting, and attending, Prog. Brain Res.,
88 (1991) 521-532.
2 Berridge, C.W. and Foote, S.L., Effects of Locus Coeruleus
Activation on Electroencephalographic Activity in Neocortex and
Hippocampus, J. Neurosci., 11 (1991) 3135-3145.
-- The pontine reticular formation, and mesopontine cholinergic areas
also play several of the parts classically assigned to the RAS; for
example:
1 Llinas, R.R. and Paré, D., Of dreaming and wakefulness,
Neuroscience, 44 (1991) 521-535.
2 Shouse, M.N. and Siegel, J.M., Pontine Regulation of REM Sleep
Components in Cats -Integrity of the Pedunculopontine Tegmentum
(PPT) Is Important for Phasic Events But Unnecessary for Atonia
During REM Sleep, Brain Res., 571 (1992) 50-63.
-- Maybe this could start you rolling.
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